I can't figure it out. Almost every time I go to get in my car, I unlock the door with the remote, get in, and the car tells me that my trunk is ajar. Sometimes I randomly go out and check to see if its closed, and one time when I checked it wasn't.

I'm confused, but I think if I take the car to the dealer and ask, there would be no way for them to test something like that, and they'd just think I was stupid.

Anyone else had a similar problem?

 

dealer it.,

 

I had that problem at first then I found out the trunk button on the keyless entry is real easy to push and it can pop it just by being in my pocket.

Hope that helps

 

i do it all the time because of my lanyard and all the key rings on it. I wondered y this happend alot too and then i saw it happen and it was cleared up.

 

Have you heard the tapping sound yet? Thats what I thought the thread would be about when I saw the title "Ghost in my Trunk!" Or maybe there's no tapping because it was able to get out, hence the open trunk.

 

Are you talking about when you shut the car off and then about 30 seconds later the back starts creeking and tapping??? Cuz if you are, I thought only mine did that.

 

Nope, the tapping ghost comes stock for everyone.

 

mine does that to!I thought it was someone knocking on my trunk when I first heard it.

 

You know whats weird is that I don't ever have the keys in my pocket when this happens. I always have them on top of the microwave, out of my kids reach (he was my first suspect) and I grab them off the nuker and head out and that's when I notice the mysteriously popped trunk.

 

It got to me the first few times, then I felt I had to do something about it, now I just live with it. And since everybody's car does that I feel alot better about whatever that is in the back.

And DSMissed... I think you DO have a ghost in your trunk.

 

the tapping happens to me too. the first time i thought somone was knocking my my trunk / spoiler! does anyone know what its caused from?

 

the knocking is from the metal of your exaust system being cooled by the air...i think

 

The creeking is from the crap ebrakes slipping.

 

me 2

 

Ya, thats the only ticking i hear outside of mine.

 

someone was shot and burried off a country road. your car was used for transportation. look for blood stains.

 

Uh... we all know that ghosts aren't real. It's the TRUNK MONKEY, as has been disclosed on official TSBs. I know, GM might get into trouble shipping exotic animals across North America, but apparently they don't care.

Good luck catching you trunk monkey!

Ian

 

You just had to give a scientific explanation... at first I thought it was the rear springs. But it happened even when I was still sitting in the car. after that hypothesis was found to be rong I just gave it up...


The e-brake is crap. If I park on a steep incline I have to yank on the thing to keep it from moving.

 

its not the brakes or the exhaust. i believe a while back somene found out it was the emergency trunk release mechanism resetting, i could be wrong though

 

Its probably just the car itself playing tricks on me, cause its mad I haven't been driving it much lately, so it has to do something to get my attention.

 

My Caprice Classic used to do the same thing when it still had a cat. Stick your head underneath the car and find out.

*Unless there is another sound, of which i have not discovered yet*

 

I HEAR THAT TAPPING TOO!!! I was about to post a thread on it to find out what it is, lol what is it?!?!?!

I dont think its the emergency trunk release, because, I thought the emergency trunk release was ALL mechanical, so how or why would it reset itsself?

 

yeah i got the same problem but mine ussually comes when the car is idling for awhile. i always look around to see if anyone is there. and the trunk thing i had the same problem and i figured out that it was the remote in my pocket. i guess when i walked the button got pushed.

 

there is a few threads about this I believe.....

It is a self checking mechanism, its checking to make sure it locked thats all.

 

This thread went from a trunk being ajar to tapping..BTW mine taps too.